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Rowena Strain

Team Leader, Financial Management Resource Support Unit

Rowena has ten years of experience working in the Kimberley in Indigenous and other community organisations, with financial inclusion and homelessness being her main focus for the past few years. Working at Matrix on Board is providing her with a great opportunity to work across the whole region and to build up the financial literacy sector. In the past, she lectured at Kimberley Tafe and Notre Dame University and is enjoying returning to training.

Siena Balakrishnan

Client Manager, Financial Management Resource Support Unit

Siena has been working in community cultural development since 2002; in the UK at a not-for-profit arts organisation and in Perth and Sydney for the government. Her skills include project management and marketing.  Siena has a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in marketing and public relations and enjoys putting what she’s learnt into practice in a fun and creative way.
Excited by the wet season, Siena is waiting for her first tropical cyclone – eek!